soul_campaign app [finished]
[ PLAYER INFORMATION ]
Player Name: Missa
Age: 23
Timezone: US Eastern
Personal Journal: takewing
Contact Information:
Instant Messenger: AIM - ochibihoi
Email: mmkoetz (at) gmail
Current Characters: Gray Fullbuster
Activity Checks: Here.
[ CHARACTER INFORMATION ]
Name: Kurt Hummel (also called Lady Face, also called Gay Kid, also called Porcelain, also called a lot more insulting things… )
Age: Canon is iffy, either 16 or 17, I’ll go with 16 though.
Gender: Male
Fandom: Glee
Timeline: Season Two, post-episode 7 (The Substitute), pre-episode 8 (Furt)
History: http://glee.wikia.com/wiki/Kurt_Hummel
Character Personality:
Kurt Hummel pulls off an air of confidence and grace that you don’t really expect to see in a 16-17 year old boy, and certainly not in many straight boys, which is why his “coming out” ends up being a surprise to almost no one, not even his typical football-loving car mechanic Midwestern dad. Kurt is bold, unafraid of expressing himself musically, vocally, and fashionably. When we first meet Kurt, he’s a uniquely dressed young man with a flair for the dramatic and a very impressive vocal range. In short, he’s fabulous incarnate and don’t you dare forget it.
Kurt puts off an impression that he believes he’s better than almost everyone around him, including the bullies on the football team who chuck him into dumpsters almost ritualistically. He is pretty brave, in a way, in that he deals with living in a relatively homophobic town with his head held high, his retorts almost always biting, and… by occasionally wearing skirts to school. Or kilts. Whatever. The point is, he’s a strong guy, but he’s not invincible, not always completely genuine, and not always nice.
What it really comes down to is that Kurt is lonely. And that does get better when he joins Glee club and befriends Mercedes, Tina, Quinn, Artie, Finn, and the rest. But the thing is, an awkward friendship with Finn, the tall, dark, handsome quarterback of the football team and male lead singer of their glee club isn’t quite enough as far as Kurt is concerned. Kurt’s been crushing on him since freshman year, and their budding sort-of-friendship only adds fuel to the fire of his burning crush. And here is where Kurt shows his manipulative, desperate side - he set up his own dad and Finn’s mom in an attempt to get closer to Finn, who is TOTALLY STRAIGHT BY THE WAY, but Kurt suffers under the illusion that if he just pushes hard enough and in all the right ways, throws enough hints, gets to share a bedroom with Finn when he and his mom move in with Kurt and his dad, it’ll all be okay and his crush will realize that maybe he could totally go gay for Kurt.
Of course, this backfires spectacularly and makes Finn incredibly uncomfortable, so much so that he lashes out with some insulting words of his own (but this isn’t a Finn app). Kurt was a jackass in this instance, true. Eventually all is forgiven, but it takes months for the two of them to become really comfortable around each other to the point where they’re all right again and have really grown from the epic nightmare that was Kurt’s fanatical crush on his future step-brother.
He learns from this though. He’s a bit more cautious with his flirtations, now - he’s been burned by the fires of rejection before and isn’t in a hurry to put himself or anyone he likes in that position again. He’s a little shyer, a little more closed off to others in season two. His acerbic wit is still there, but it’s tinged with bitterness. He withdraws a little more.
It’s my belief that Kurt flaunts himself and his superiority over others as a kind of defense mechanism. When you’re the only other gay kid you know of at your school, when you get bullied and insulted and called names and basically told that you’re crap for being who you are, you are your best ally. He places himself above everyone else in his head, which has led to some pretty manipulative choices on his part. He’s not entirely sensitive to other peoples’ feelings, due to the pedestal he places himself on which causes a sort of disconnect.
When he realizes he’s done something crappy, though, that’s when he falls back to earth again. He’s not without a conscience or a heart, and he’s perfectly capable of standing up and admitting blame where blame is due - though more often it seems that people end up apologizing to him first. This… is kind of a flaw in the show, though, and I’m not going to go any deeper into that. Suffice to say that Kurt is capable of nice feelings, and isn’t always a manipulative little bastard with a superiority complex acting out due to loneliness. He can be very defensive where his friends are concerned, and even becomes defensive on Rachel’s behalf, despite the fact that they will be always and forever diva rivals. Rival glee club throws raw eggs at Rachel? It’s payback time! Though the entire glee club shares this sentiment, as well.
Kurt is also extremely attached to his father and loves him more than anyone else in the world (his mom, however, died when he was about 8 from causes not mentioned canonically). When his dad started getting phone calls cruelly saying “Your son’s a fag” before abruptly hanging up again, Kurt is able to put his own desires for a solo aside and sabotage his performance just so his dad presumably won’t get crap over his son singing a girl’s song in glee club.
In the second season of Glee, Kurt gets a pretty big plotline wherein his problem with bullying at school gets worse, and piled on top of what he’s had to experience before it really starts to get to him. Already arrogant and stand-offish to all but a select few, he seems to withdraw within himself more and more with time as he believes that his is a burden that must be bared alone, that no one at school cares or will be able to help him in any way that really counts. Things seem to get better when he goes on a spying mission to rival all-boys school Dalton Academy, and it’s here he meets somebody who finally gets him. He’s able to open up to this kid, Blaine, who is also gay and had also experienced bullying so bad that he had to transfer schools. Kurt found his support system and a source of courage in Blaine, but things at school end up getting worse - long story short, he’s assaulted by and continually harassed by a certain homophobic, closeted jock.
This is where I am taking Kurt from and sending him into Death City. In the few days before his arrival, he receives various frighteningly suggestive gestures and a death threat. He’s seriously on edge.
But he’s still obviously completely fabulous, a breathtaking diva, and better than you in all the ways that matter - intellectually, musically, and fashionably.
Character Abilities:
Kurt is a normal human boy by all means. His talents, however, are numerous - he is an excellent singer with a vocal range from tenor to soprano (I think he can even force a baritone and he also does that one bass part in Give Up The Funk, the kid’s voice is like MAGIC), he can spot upcoming trends in men’s fashion, and he can without fail tell when hair color actually comes from a bottle. And those are just his main three according to him. His aesthetic eye in everything from fashion to interior design is admirable and he’s a pretty good student, shown to be especially talented in French in an episode or two. Also, his dancing skills have managed to make him both a valuable addition to the football team temporarily as a kicker, and also for a time during the first season to the school’s famous cheerleading squad (though his main role as a Cheerio was to sing). Kurt is also quite skilled at car repair, since his dad owns a repair shop - there’s got to be just a few ways in which Kurt breaks the stereotype, right? Right.
Character Weaknesses:
Kurt is a bit of a neat freak, especially when it comes to himself. Do not mess up his hair, do not mess up his face, and NEVER get garbage/slushie/whatever on his favorite designer clothes or he might attempt to skin you alive. Also, the whole only-gay-kid-around-in-an-intolerant-school thing HAS burnt Kurt down quite a bit, though he’d do his best to not admit it. Slurs, insults, even littler cruelties like Coach Sylvester’s nickname for him (“Lady”), do get to him. He takes most of it in stride, but over the past few weeks it’s really been getting to him and he’ll likely be on edge about it all.
I feel like I’m stating the obvious on this one, but Kurt isn’t a big strong guy physically. He’s slight (though growing at a freakish rate), still has a bit of “baby fat” if you want to call it that, and although he’s fit he’s not particularly muscular or athletic beyond what’s necessary to dance well.
His personality, in some ways, can be a bit… much. When he’s not arrogantly strutting around or being intentionally aloof from the crowd, though, beneath these layers is just a kid who’s gone through a lot in his life and who’s struggling with the realization that he’ll never be “normal” - and the fact that he most certainly wouldn’t ever want to be normal, anyway. Being different is what keeps him happy at the end of the day.
[ MEISTER ONLY SECTION ]
Why your character should be a Meister:
BREW is smart and doesn’t want to mess with a good thing. Kurt is a rising star in the making, it’s totally unnecessary to give him powers beyond what he already has - a great voice, a great presence, and the ability to keep his awesome clothes spotless and his hair in place at all times. There are a few really awesome Meister abilities that correlate with his skills… someone will just have to convince him that it’s worth finding out which one he has. Trying to convince him to actually fight… well. That’ll be harder. Maybe impossible. I’m sure BREW has its reasons though.
Meister Ability:
Soul Serenade - The better they sing while resonating, the stronger they are. However, if it ever goes off key, the resonation will begin to fail.
[ SOUL INFORMATION ]
Soul Description: Resilient, bold, protective, passionate, sardonic, inimitable
Soul Appearance: Red and dark navy blue plaid, with red as the base color, and the appearance of a matching scarf along the bottom of the soul’s “head”. At the top, its “hair” is smoothed back and to the side neatly. Its expression has a slight smile and it just KNOWS it’s better than 99.9% of souls out there - seriously, have you ever seen a soul like his before? Didn’t think so.
[ SAMPLES ]
First Person:
[video]
[ A teenage boy wearing an impressive designer sweater and broach ensemble delicately crosses his skinny-jean clad legs in front of him and rests his hands on his knees in one smooth well-practiced motion. When he speaks, his voice is relatively high in pitch, and he smiles pleasantly into the camera. ]
Hello. This is sort of like Skype, isn’t it? Anyway, Death City, pleased to meet you. I am Kurt Hummel, and I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing here but hey, I’ll take a vacation while I can get one. I must say, I’d been considering transferring schools but this Shibusen Academy wasn’t exactly what I had in mind, if you know what I mean.
Classes are optional, apparently, and they don’t teach trigonometry - both of these are points I can definitely get on board with.
[ he smiles wider ]
I was just wondering, these little studio apartments are absolutely dismal, and by the looks of the architecture outside - you know, all the skulls, bones, rivers of blood-colored water at least I hope it’s just blood-colored water - by the looks of it, you guys have a LOT to learn when it comes to decorating. I was thinking I could spice up my own apartment and also offer to help the rest of you guys do the same. Let me know if you’re interested!
I’m also available for fashion consultations and make-overs. Seriously, these things are my crack and they also have the advantage of distracting me from the fact that oh my god I am no longer in Lima, Ohio and this is simultaneously unutterably amazing and also completely heartbreaking!
[ Despite his words, his tone is cheery, and he moves to shut off the feed. ]
Third Person:
Kurt’s life has just been threatened. Well, by “just” he doesn’t mean two seconds ago or even two hours ago, but even though it’s been just slightly longer than that - several hours - it’s still burning in his mind, painful as a raw wound. Who knows what that Neanderthal Karofsky is actually capable of? Who knows if the threat isn’t as empty as Kurt hopes it is? Who knows if the kiss and the winks and the looks and the other gross and disturbing things he’s had to put up with will lead to other even more gross and disturbing things he doesn’t even want to think about?
He can’t tell anyone. This is his cross to bear, alone. He’s not planning on telling anyone (well, other than Blaine, but too late for that) about Karofsky’s secret, so he shouldn’t worry about the death threat as much as he is. Just the fact that it had been said to begin with, though… it puts him on edge, makes him shudder and want to grab his comforter and his pillow and hide in bed instead of working on stupid trigonometry. He takes a calming sigh, switches his iPod to Lady Gaga’s “Alejandro”, and closes his eyes for just a moment, hoping to get some new insight on his next trig problem if only he can clear his mind a little.
And then, suddenly, he’s no longer sitting in his desk chair. With an “oomph!”, he falls on his butt rather ungracefully and hits his tailbone rather painfully. At first, he thinks someone must have pulled his chair out from under him, but then he registers the lack of Lady Gaga playing, the lack of his bedroom surrounding him - the lack of light. It’s colder where he is now, darker, dryer. He’s glad he’s wearing a sweater, but absolutely pissed because the floor is FILTHY and his BUTT IS ON IT and that is NOT OKAY.
He squints into the darkness as he rises to his feet, notes with dry amusement that he’s still holding his mechanical pencil, and stuffs the thing into the pocket of his jeans. Where is he? Why is he here?
It’s then that the TV screen with Spirit’s face comes on. He’s not panicking yet, no, but he will be in a moment or two.
[ NOTES ] None.
Player Name: Missa
Age: 23
Timezone: US Eastern
Personal Journal: takewing
Contact Information:
Instant Messenger: AIM - ochibihoi
Email: mmkoetz (at) gmail
Current Characters: Gray Fullbuster
Activity Checks: Here.
[ CHARACTER INFORMATION ]
Name: Kurt Hummel (also called Lady Face, also called Gay Kid, also called Porcelain, also called a lot more insulting things… )
Age: Canon is iffy, either 16 or 17, I’ll go with 16 though.
Gender: Male
Fandom: Glee
Timeline: Season Two, post-episode 7 (The Substitute), pre-episode 8 (Furt)
History: http://glee.wikia.com/wiki/Kurt_Hummel
Character Personality:
Kurt Hummel pulls off an air of confidence and grace that you don’t really expect to see in a 16-17 year old boy, and certainly not in many straight boys, which is why his “coming out” ends up being a surprise to almost no one, not even his typical football-loving car mechanic Midwestern dad. Kurt is bold, unafraid of expressing himself musically, vocally, and fashionably. When we first meet Kurt, he’s a uniquely dressed young man with a flair for the dramatic and a very impressive vocal range. In short, he’s fabulous incarnate and don’t you dare forget it.
Kurt puts off an impression that he believes he’s better than almost everyone around him, including the bullies on the football team who chuck him into dumpsters almost ritualistically. He is pretty brave, in a way, in that he deals with living in a relatively homophobic town with his head held high, his retorts almost always biting, and… by occasionally wearing skirts to school. Or kilts. Whatever. The point is, he’s a strong guy, but he’s not invincible, not always completely genuine, and not always nice.
What it really comes down to is that Kurt is lonely. And that does get better when he joins Glee club and befriends Mercedes, Tina, Quinn, Artie, Finn, and the rest. But the thing is, an awkward friendship with Finn, the tall, dark, handsome quarterback of the football team and male lead singer of their glee club isn’t quite enough as far as Kurt is concerned. Kurt’s been crushing on him since freshman year, and their budding sort-of-friendship only adds fuel to the fire of his burning crush. And here is where Kurt shows his manipulative, desperate side - he set up his own dad and Finn’s mom in an attempt to get closer to Finn, who is TOTALLY STRAIGHT BY THE WAY, but Kurt suffers under the illusion that if he just pushes hard enough and in all the right ways, throws enough hints, gets to share a bedroom with Finn when he and his mom move in with Kurt and his dad, it’ll all be okay and his crush will realize that maybe he could totally go gay for Kurt.
Of course, this backfires spectacularly and makes Finn incredibly uncomfortable, so much so that he lashes out with some insulting words of his own (but this isn’t a Finn app). Kurt was a jackass in this instance, true. Eventually all is forgiven, but it takes months for the two of them to become really comfortable around each other to the point where they’re all right again and have really grown from the epic nightmare that was Kurt’s fanatical crush on his future step-brother.
He learns from this though. He’s a bit more cautious with his flirtations, now - he’s been burned by the fires of rejection before and isn’t in a hurry to put himself or anyone he likes in that position again. He’s a little shyer, a little more closed off to others in season two. His acerbic wit is still there, but it’s tinged with bitterness. He withdraws a little more.
It’s my belief that Kurt flaunts himself and his superiority over others as a kind of defense mechanism. When you’re the only other gay kid you know of at your school, when you get bullied and insulted and called names and basically told that you’re crap for being who you are, you are your best ally. He places himself above everyone else in his head, which has led to some pretty manipulative choices on his part. He’s not entirely sensitive to other peoples’ feelings, due to the pedestal he places himself on which causes a sort of disconnect.
When he realizes he’s done something crappy, though, that’s when he falls back to earth again. He’s not without a conscience or a heart, and he’s perfectly capable of standing up and admitting blame where blame is due - though more often it seems that people end up apologizing to him first. This… is kind of a flaw in the show, though, and I’m not going to go any deeper into that. Suffice to say that Kurt is capable of nice feelings, and isn’t always a manipulative little bastard with a superiority complex acting out due to loneliness. He can be very defensive where his friends are concerned, and even becomes defensive on Rachel’s behalf, despite the fact that they will be always and forever diva rivals. Rival glee club throws raw eggs at Rachel? It’s payback time! Though the entire glee club shares this sentiment, as well.
Kurt is also extremely attached to his father and loves him more than anyone else in the world (his mom, however, died when he was about 8 from causes not mentioned canonically). When his dad started getting phone calls cruelly saying “Your son’s a fag” before abruptly hanging up again, Kurt is able to put his own desires for a solo aside and sabotage his performance just so his dad presumably won’t get crap over his son singing a girl’s song in glee club.
In the second season of Glee, Kurt gets a pretty big plotline wherein his problem with bullying at school gets worse, and piled on top of what he’s had to experience before it really starts to get to him. Already arrogant and stand-offish to all but a select few, he seems to withdraw within himself more and more with time as he believes that his is a burden that must be bared alone, that no one at school cares or will be able to help him in any way that really counts. Things seem to get better when he goes on a spying mission to rival all-boys school Dalton Academy, and it’s here he meets somebody who finally gets him. He’s able to open up to this kid, Blaine, who is also gay and had also experienced bullying so bad that he had to transfer schools. Kurt found his support system and a source of courage in Blaine, but things at school end up getting worse - long story short, he’s assaulted by and continually harassed by a certain homophobic, closeted jock.
This is where I am taking Kurt from and sending him into Death City. In the few days before his arrival, he receives various frighteningly suggestive gestures and a death threat. He’s seriously on edge.
But he’s still obviously completely fabulous, a breathtaking diva, and better than you in all the ways that matter - intellectually, musically, and fashionably.
Character Abilities:
Kurt is a normal human boy by all means. His talents, however, are numerous - he is an excellent singer with a vocal range from tenor to soprano (I think he can even force a baritone and he also does that one bass part in Give Up The Funk, the kid’s voice is like MAGIC), he can spot upcoming trends in men’s fashion, and he can without fail tell when hair color actually comes from a bottle. And those are just his main three according to him. His aesthetic eye in everything from fashion to interior design is admirable and he’s a pretty good student, shown to be especially talented in French in an episode or two. Also, his dancing skills have managed to make him both a valuable addition to the football team temporarily as a kicker, and also for a time during the first season to the school’s famous cheerleading squad (though his main role as a Cheerio was to sing). Kurt is also quite skilled at car repair, since his dad owns a repair shop - there’s got to be just a few ways in which Kurt breaks the stereotype, right? Right.
Character Weaknesses:
Kurt is a bit of a neat freak, especially when it comes to himself. Do not mess up his hair, do not mess up his face, and NEVER get garbage/slushie/whatever on his favorite designer clothes or he might attempt to skin you alive. Also, the whole only-gay-kid-around-in-an-intolerant-school thing HAS burnt Kurt down quite a bit, though he’d do his best to not admit it. Slurs, insults, even littler cruelties like Coach Sylvester’s nickname for him (“Lady”), do get to him. He takes most of it in stride, but over the past few weeks it’s really been getting to him and he’ll likely be on edge about it all.
I feel like I’m stating the obvious on this one, but Kurt isn’t a big strong guy physically. He’s slight (though growing at a freakish rate), still has a bit of “baby fat” if you want to call it that, and although he’s fit he’s not particularly muscular or athletic beyond what’s necessary to dance well.
His personality, in some ways, can be a bit… much. When he’s not arrogantly strutting around or being intentionally aloof from the crowd, though, beneath these layers is just a kid who’s gone through a lot in his life and who’s struggling with the realization that he’ll never be “normal” - and the fact that he most certainly wouldn’t ever want to be normal, anyway. Being different is what keeps him happy at the end of the day.
[ MEISTER ONLY SECTION ]
Why your character should be a Meister:
BREW is smart and doesn’t want to mess with a good thing. Kurt is a rising star in the making, it’s totally unnecessary to give him powers beyond what he already has - a great voice, a great presence, and the ability to keep his awesome clothes spotless and his hair in place at all times. There are a few really awesome Meister abilities that correlate with his skills… someone will just have to convince him that it’s worth finding out which one he has. Trying to convince him to actually fight… well. That’ll be harder. Maybe impossible. I’m sure BREW has its reasons though.
Meister Ability:
Soul Serenade - The better they sing while resonating, the stronger they are. However, if it ever goes off key, the resonation will begin to fail.
[ SOUL INFORMATION ]
Soul Description: Resilient, bold, protective, passionate, sardonic, inimitable
Soul Appearance: Red and dark navy blue plaid, with red as the base color, and the appearance of a matching scarf along the bottom of the soul’s “head”. At the top, its “hair” is smoothed back and to the side neatly. Its expression has a slight smile and it just KNOWS it’s better than 99.9% of souls out there - seriously, have you ever seen a soul like his before? Didn’t think so.
[ SAMPLES ]
First Person:
[video]
[ A teenage boy wearing an impressive designer sweater and broach ensemble delicately crosses his skinny-jean clad legs in front of him and rests his hands on his knees in one smooth well-practiced motion. When he speaks, his voice is relatively high in pitch, and he smiles pleasantly into the camera. ]
Hello. This is sort of like Skype, isn’t it? Anyway, Death City, pleased to meet you. I am Kurt Hummel, and I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing here but hey, I’ll take a vacation while I can get one. I must say, I’d been considering transferring schools but this Shibusen Academy wasn’t exactly what I had in mind, if you know what I mean.
Classes are optional, apparently, and they don’t teach trigonometry - both of these are points I can definitely get on board with.
[ he smiles wider ]
I was just wondering, these little studio apartments are absolutely dismal, and by the looks of the architecture outside - you know, all the skulls, bones, rivers of blood-colored water at least I hope it’s just blood-colored water - by the looks of it, you guys have a LOT to learn when it comes to decorating. I was thinking I could spice up my own apartment and also offer to help the rest of you guys do the same. Let me know if you’re interested!
I’m also available for fashion consultations and make-overs. Seriously, these things are my crack and they also have the advantage of distracting me from the fact that oh my god I am no longer in Lima, Ohio and this is simultaneously unutterably amazing and also completely heartbreaking!
[ Despite his words, his tone is cheery, and he moves to shut off the feed. ]
Third Person:
Kurt’s life has just been threatened. Well, by “just” he doesn’t mean two seconds ago or even two hours ago, but even though it’s been just slightly longer than that - several hours - it’s still burning in his mind, painful as a raw wound. Who knows what that Neanderthal Karofsky is actually capable of? Who knows if the threat isn’t as empty as Kurt hopes it is? Who knows if the kiss and the winks and the looks and the other gross and disturbing things he’s had to put up with will lead to other even more gross and disturbing things he doesn’t even want to think about?
He can’t tell anyone. This is his cross to bear, alone. He’s not planning on telling anyone (well, other than Blaine, but too late for that) about Karofsky’s secret, so he shouldn’t worry about the death threat as much as he is. Just the fact that it had been said to begin with, though… it puts him on edge, makes him shudder and want to grab his comforter and his pillow and hide in bed instead of working on stupid trigonometry. He takes a calming sigh, switches his iPod to Lady Gaga’s “Alejandro”, and closes his eyes for just a moment, hoping to get some new insight on his next trig problem if only he can clear his mind a little.
And then, suddenly, he’s no longer sitting in his desk chair. With an “oomph!”, he falls on his butt rather ungracefully and hits his tailbone rather painfully. At first, he thinks someone must have pulled his chair out from under him, but then he registers the lack of Lady Gaga playing, the lack of his bedroom surrounding him - the lack of light. It’s colder where he is now, darker, dryer. He’s glad he’s wearing a sweater, but absolutely pissed because the floor is FILTHY and his BUTT IS ON IT and that is NOT OKAY.
He squints into the darkness as he rises to his feet, notes with dry amusement that he’s still holding his mechanical pencil, and stuffs the thing into the pocket of his jeans. Where is he? Why is he here?
It’s then that the TV screen with Spirit’s face comes on. He’s not panicking yet, no, but he will be in a moment or two.
[ NOTES ] None.